Pakistan’s Policy of Social Inclusion for Making a Resilient Society to Violent Extremism

Abstract

The community provides the support/links that connects the actors across the Counter Violent Extremism space. Pakistani government’s CVE initiatives regarding community resilience work are not up to the mark. In the past, policy initiatives were designed with gaps to manage or to stop the evil of violent extremism at the community level. History of Pakistan shows that lack of rule of law, social injustices at community level, inappropriate role of mosques and identity crisis had promoted violent extremism within communities. The objective of this research is to promote social inclusion by enhancing resilience capabilities within Pakistani society and to analyze the national and local policies and evaluate the programmes/practices to enhance community resilience to violent extremism. This research is qualitative in methodology and data has been collected from secondary sources. Finally, paper concludes that non- governmental organizations can play their role. Only need is the cooperation among state and nongovernmental organizations because use of the hard power through the military is not a viable solution. For durable peace and prosperity, the linkages between state policies with local level initiatives would be started in the form of bonding, bridging and linking connections across society.